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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: A lesson in squandering public money
Description: If you’re not cringing over the latest decision by the Christchurch City Council, you should be. Because yesterday, councillors sat around the table to decide whether they should spend $1.4 million on a 10-week trial of changes to a little piece of Gloucester Street. These are changes to the stretch of Gloucester Street where the Isaac Theatre Royal is, to make the street “a more inviting space for hospitality, performers and theatre-goers”. So they sat around the table at Council headquarters. Read a report written by council staff which effectively said “don’t do it”. An...